Americans for Job Security/external articles

This article is part of the Center for Media & Democracy's spotlight on front groups and corporate spin.

The following are external articles related to Americans for Job Security.

• Donna Cassata, "Independent Groups' Ads Increasingly Steer Campaigns," CQ/CNN, May 5, 1998.
• Ruth Marcus, "'Issue Advocacy' Ads Less of an Issue," Washington Post, October 23, 1998.
• Romesh Ratnesar, "The New Money Game," TIME Magazine, November 2, 1998.
• Joel Connelly, "Bush Supporter Pilloried, But May Have Had a Point," Seattle Post-Intelligencer (BoycottGreenMountain.com), April 10, 2000.
• Peter Marks, "Special-Interest Groups Widening Political Attack Ads," New York Times, May 14, 2000.
• Mike Allen, "GOP Pressures Tech Firms to Help Michigan Senator. Lobbyists Feared Bill's Fate Hinged On Money for Ads," Washington Post, May 16, 2000.
• Nedra Pickler, "Lott Asks Cos. to Donate to Abraham," Associated Press (USAVisaNow.com), May 17, 2000.
• "Ethics Complaint and Request for Investigation of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott," Congressional Accountability Project, May 22, 2000.
• "Hijacking Campaign 2000. 'Issue Ads'," Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, June 1, 2001.
• Laura McCallum, "Adwatch: Attack ad goes after Wellstone," Minnesota Pubic Radio, June 21, 2002.
• Bill McAllister, "House OKs RCA compromise. Taylor still fighting extension; veterans funding in trouble," The Juneau Empire (AlaskaLegislature.com), June 25, 2002.
• "BushBoy.com To Match 'Americans For Job Security' $1 Million Ad Buy," Marketwire (FindArticles.com), October 2002.
• Michelle Cottle, "New Money. Minnesota and Our Dystopian Political Future," The New Republic, June 16, 2002.
• Patricia Lopez, "Mysterious Group Spends $1 Million on Anti-Wellstone Campaign," Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Common Dreams), October 23, 2002.
• John Nichols, "Money Flows Into Anti-Wellstone Campaign," The Nation, October 23, 2002.
• "With their record, you'd think they'd be worried about their own job security," TBogg Blogspot, October 23, 2002.
• Joel Connelly, "In The Northwest: Big business buys power through anonymous ads," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 28, 2002.
• Brad Willis, "Truth Check: Americans For Job Security Ad Against Inez Tenenbaum," WYFF4.com, circa 2003.
• "Americans for Job Security print ad on John Edwards," Raleigh News & Observer, May 13, 2003; posted by George Washington University.
• "Abuse of 501-C4 Status by Conservative Organizations," RightWATCH/DemocracyGroups.org, May 15, 2003.
• "Name Recognition for Edwards," PerryDeaneYoung.com, May 17, 2003.
• Randal C. Archibold, "Edwards the Campaigner Backs Edwards the Lawyer," New York Times, November 16, 2003.
• Christopher Bollyn, "Wellstone and 911: The Uncanny Connections. The Death of a Senator," The American Free Press (The Truth Seeker), December 2, 2003.
• Charles Kuffner, "SD1 Update," Off the Kuff Blog, January 29, 2004.
• Derek Cressman, "'Americans for Job Security' Uses Big Money to Win Elections," For the Rest of Us Blogspot, March 11, 2004.
• Nicholas Confessore, "Bush's Secret Stash. Why the GOP war chest is even bigger than you think," Washington Monthly, May 2004.
• Ned, "Even a Rat's Gotta Breathe," For the Rest of Us Blogspot, June 9, 2004.
• Laylan Copelin, "Lawyers for Tom DeLay say U.S. House Majority Leader not a target," Texans for Public Justice, June 24, 2004.
• Jonathan Cohn, "The Phony Assault on Edwards. Trial and Error," The New Republic, July 9, 2004.
• Mark P. Couch, "Coors' mine stake rapped," Denver Post (The Mining News), September 2, 2004.
• "'K Street Project' Delivered For DeLay's Indicted PAC. DeLay-Linked Lobby Firms Represented Multiple TRM PAC Donors," Texans for Public Justice/LobbyWatch, October 11, 2004.
• "CREW Files IRS Complaint Against Americans For Job Security, Americans For Jobs And Growth, Citizens United and Let Freedom Ring," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, October 19, 2004.
• Charles Kuffner, "Illegal Armtwisting?" Off the Kuff Blog, April 15, 2005.
• "Americans For Job Security Pops Up In PA," Hot Line On Call Blog/National Journal, November 21, 2005.
• Chris Cillizza, "Pa. Senate: Pro-Santorum Ads Launched," The Fix Blog/Washington Post, November 25, 2005.
• "More on Americans for Job Security," Democrats.org, December 1, 2005.
• "PA-Sen: Centre Daily's Ironic Correction," Democrats.org, December 2, 2005.
• Matt Stoller, "Good Government Groups Ignore Secret Corporate Cash," MyDD, December 7, 2005.
• kos, "PA-Sen: Casey files complaints over ads," The Daily Kos, December 8, 2005.
• Glen Justice, "Concerns Grow About Role of Interest Groups in Elections," New York Times, March 9, 2005.
• Matt Singer, "Americans for Job Security Fighting Republicans Now?" Sirota Blog, February 11, 2006.
• Jay Reiff, "That Didn't Take Long," BobCasey.com, May 30, 2006.
• Marie Price, "Business group's campaign activities in OK questioned" and "Political tactics in OK may signal bruising GOP congressional race," The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (FindArticles.com), July 31, 2006.
• David Postman, "McGavick's hardball consultant," Postman on Politics Blog/The Seattle Times, August 7, 2006.
• Brian Brus, "Professors say last-minute 'push polls' effective in elections with...," The Journal Record (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (FindArticles.com), August 9, 2006.
• "JTFA Attorney Tied To American Insurance Association President, Americans For Job Security," The McCarville Report, October 23, 2006.
• Warren Wolfe and Dane Smith, "GOP jumps on Dutcher's E85 misstep," StarTribune.com (Minn.), November 2, 2006.
• "New Complaints of Partisan Electioneering Go to IRS, FEC," OMBWatch.org, April 17, 2007.
• Taylor Lincoln, "It's a Sham," Watchdog Blog/Public Citizen, April 17, 2007. See complaint.
• "IRS Needs to Draw the Line on 501(c) Nonprofits," Watchdog Blog/Public Citizen, April 26, 2007.
• Ernest Luning, "Ad blasts union ties to Blago in salvo against Employee Free Choice Act," Colorado Independent, December 16, 2008.